{"id":289,"date":"2009-04-23T09:25:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T13:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/04\/23\/obamas-popularity\/"},"modified":"2009-04-23T09:25:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T13:25:56","slug":"obamas-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/04\/23\/obamas-popularity\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&rsquo;s Popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090423\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/us_obama100_days_ap_poll_9\">Now is the time<\/a> to force major, progressive changes.&#160; It is not a time for timidity.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For the first time in years, more Americans than not say the country is headed in the right direction, a sign that Barack Obama has used the first 100 days of his presidency to lift the public&#8217;s mood and inspire hopes for a brighter future.<\/p>\n<p>Intensely worried about their personal finances and medical expenses, Americans nonetheless appear realistic about the time Obama might need to turn things around, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. It shows most Americans consider their new president to be a strong, ethical and empathetic leader who is working to change Washington.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now how to we get people like Sens. Harry Reid and Mark Warner out of the way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now is the time to force major, progressive changes.&#160; It is not a time for timidity. For the first time in years, more Americans than not say the country is headed in the right direction, a sign that Barack Obama has used the first 100 days of his presidency to lift the public&#8217;s mood and&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/04\/23\/obamas-popularity\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}